Meanwhile the fairest economic system ever:
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this is such bullshit. the "elite" housing in the thumbnail just resembles the style of housing built in the country from the 1930s up until 1955. in accordance to first the postconstructivist and later the socialist realist architectural styles. those "worker's palaces" were in fact, as the name suggests for ordinary workers and not just societal elites.
meanwhile the latter building resembles a standardized panel-built residential complex built after khrushchevs 1955 speech recommending architectuts to make more economical use of the USSR's limited building resources. while postwar scarcity and haphazard building practices did in fact initially lead to a decrease in living quality, those issues were mostly resolved by the onset of the second generation of Soviet standard industrial housing construction by the 1970s. what all of those complexes have in common though, is that all of them provide a much higher quality of life to the common worker than anything built after 1990.
and yes, certain people, "elites" if you will, did in fact have a considerably higher quality of life than most people, but those differences where negligible in comparison to the Russian empire or any capitalist régime past or present.
yeah, communist elites had access, not wealth. they had connections and could arrange things. note that this is still massively less corrupt than capitalist elites, where the corruption is built right into the system, and is mostly legalized.
well, and some of them used their connections to get the nice houses taken from the bourgeoisie. at least i assume it was that way in the SU too. i know my grandma's older sister got a pretty nice house and dacha in hungary. but of course they then didnt (and couldnt) turn that into a real-estate empire or whatever ghoul shit capitalist elites do.
true. also those (relative) privileges also extended to important engineers, scientists, managers and veterans of the great patriotic war. all of those groups are infinitely more deserving of wealth and prosperity than the "people" who get rich under capitalism
Economically, a true equality will never happen., however, I could deal with the world a lot better if the wealth disparity between the richest and poorest person was under 15 times higher or something like that instead of the 2478 times or higher that it is under capitalism.
even capitalism works better when the ratio is 15 instead of a bazillion, but capitalism has no mechanism to stop it from eating itself
Even Marx had some praises of Capitalism. Funny how just doing your best to make things more equal can result in better outcomes! It's almost as if having high score boards and encouraging people to reach the top of that numbers game just encourages people to whatever it takes to do so.
i learned about this from playing Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic. those older style buildings: really nice living conditions but so slooow to build and bricks while easy to manufacture are so expensive
mass production of panels FTW. can throw up a massive apartment complex for my micro-district in mere weeks